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Bus, Oil Truck Crash in Southern Pakistan, Killing 62

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Syed Shoaib Hasan

Updated Jan. 11, 2015 2:57 p.m. ET

KARACHI, Pakistan—A bus collided with a tanker truck carrying oil on a road in southern Pakistan early Sunday, starting a fire that claimed the lives at least 62 passengers, police and hospital officials said.

Police officials said the bus driver and a conductor escaped after jumping out of the vehicle as it was about to crash. The bus driver then fled the scene, said police, who are trying to locate him.